Bad News For Bush

Here's an argument I don't think even The Nation has made:

June 23, 2005--Forty-nine percent (49%) of Americans say that President Bush is more responsible for starting the War with Iraq than Saddam Hussein.

Have we reached a critical mass now, such that a domestic collapse in support for the war will necessitate an ignominious withdrawal? If these numbers are at all representative of actual public opinion, the answer is probably yes. The Bush administration certainly hasn't helped itself with its ridiculous lies about the insurgency being in its last throes. There are only two things the administration's apparatchiks are more loath to do than tell unadulterated truths: admitting error and subjecting themselves to public accountability. Even in the unlikely event that they reverse course and drop the propaganda routine, it may well be too late to make a difference.